sorry its taken so long

its probably a bit small but you might see the line of lights acting as a false horizon line- a high tide mark of waters past [just this is a nice idea - function to meaning again]. Its charles' piece from wirksworth [[nightstations.com - is his site worth a look] also i wonder as an aside if he is one of our 7 sights artists?]]. I picked it as a link to the turrel for many reasons - it makes you look differently at a site/the world, its a gentle land art piece , but i like it more that that because its perfectly atunned to the place/site. Especially on the last day after end of festival the locals after waiting for weekend to be over rearranged the piece into a giant penis how more perfect, light graffitti. I know its not offically off the beaten track but it is invisible for most of the day, unseen by many.
I wanted to post up something that reinforced your point about looking at the world differently - "which is what good art does" , but that also reinforced our thinking about making work in sites. It made me think that perhaps these sites are not inside or organinsations but could be anywhere, but that engaged with people, as charles did due to the relationship made to create the piece.
And this made me think about something that i read that said someones work engaged with the social rather the was socially engaged and they didint mean relational.
And then i thought maybe we make lots of works over a long time and dont worry about finding one place like an artemis place.
Which made me think about alec finlays work that seems to rienforce the romantic notion of poetic observations that perpetuate the myth of the countryside, in that for me its really superficial, but interesting perhaps
And then i thought what you said about dwelling people and habitus and needing to dwell which made me think of nomadic dwelling like delueze and guatarri spoke about.
And then i wondered if we journeyed
and then i wondered what that might mean.
And the i worried about not really wanting to abandon the archive because what i see it as now is a large body of work that represents landscape and so it can include anything and no it doesnt mean i am going to draw ink drawings all the time, but it does feel like something i want to be engaged with as a focus or area of research. So yes i want to make new work but that will always be at the core.
And then i think this is a good place to consider these points and that by sharing them we learn more about each others practice, yet at the same time we need to explore the idea of - off the beaten track in the search of a site - as a concept, a visual document and theoretical idea and let it come as it comes and not to try and pre think or work out what we are going to do.. But reflect on it as we do to it - isnt the act or doesnt the following our set task become the habitus.
By doing as the quest states i find just by having a focus that isnt perhaps part of my normal thinking about work means i think differently about it and consider new ways of looking. Also since doing this i now look at the landscape more or perhaps in a different way.
And then finally i worried that this was a thinking through making senario and i held my head in my hands.